Ben Affleck's Gangster Movie Live by Night Has an Alarmingly Kick-Ass New Trailer

After proving to the world that you can essentially make a superhero movie about a guy who's really good at spreadsheets, our nation's next hit of weapons-grade Ben Affleck is drawing nearer. Live by Night, based on the Dennis Lehane novel of the same name, is Affleck's next effort as director and star, and his second adaptation of a Lehane novel, following Gone Baby Gone. Its first trailer didn't tell us much about the movie's plot but gave us a really good look at its Roaring Twenties gangster-Tampa aesthetic, along with plenty of questionable accents from the likes of Elle Fanning and Chris Cooper. Its final trailer gives us a little more plot, but mostly shows off how surprisingly action-packed the movie might be.

Like a lot of gangster movies, Live by Night is about a gangster's rise to power from errand boy to top brass. This is an idea that everything from Scarface to Grand Theft Auto always spins as The American Dream, because our founding fathers were apparently real big on baggy suits and bootlegging. Either way, while I know this film is set in Tampa, and it's hot and humid and our cultural standards for dress were downright unreasonable for such climes—but man, does Ben Affleck look goofy in that suit.

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